Question

The journey was 100 miles long. We traveled at a steady 50mph and arrived after 2 hours. If you were to draw a

graph of this story, what would you label the axes? Why?

Answer 1

• abscissa t (or x) as the “time since beginning of journey”, with hours h as unit
• ordinate d (or y) as the “distance traveled”, with miles mi as unit

Explanation:

The graph will look like a diagonal straight line from (0 h, 0 mi) to (2 h, 100 mi). The slope of this line is 50 mph.